diff --git a/dev-python/pyicu/pyicu-1.9.5.ebuild b/dev-python/pyicu/pyicu-1.9.5.ebuild
index a6ccb72671c8e..df826c4fe4c96 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyicu/pyicu-1.9.5.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pyicu/pyicu-1.9.5.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
 IUSE="doc"
 
 RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	dev-libs/icu
+	<dev-libs/icu-59
 "
 # epydoc supports only python2*
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}